In-house, turnkey design solutions for
all of your electrical systems
Spark Power provides end-to-end engineering services, specializing in high and medium voltage electrical systems. By working within your scope and operational requirements, our engineers, engineering technologists, and drafting professionals, located across both Canada and the U.S., will deliver timely, reliable, cost-effective solutions and designs.
UTILITIES ENGINEERING
From municipal substations to transmission connected substations, our teams can provide you with greenfield and brownfield substations, overhead systems, protection and controls, and SCADA engineering services.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
With a broad range of experience in the oil and gas, food and beverage, and manufacturing industries, we can provide power system designs for your plant expansions, retrofits, and reliability improvements.
RENEWABLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Across North America, we have extensive experience providing solar, battery energy storage, and microgrid project engineering solutions – including preliminary, detailed, and owner's engineering services. Whatever your renewable systems engineering needs – we're here to help.
DETAILED ENGINEERING SERVICES
Our experienced team of professional engineers, engineering technologists, and drafting professionals can provide you with:
Substation engineering
- Substation plans and elevations
- Ground grid study and design
- Equipment specifications and procurement support
- Open-air and metal-enclosed switchgear
- Lightning protection
- Construction support
Protection & controls
- Design, retrofit, and modernization
- Relay and RTU programming
- Testing and commissioning
- Manufacturer agnostic (incl. SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB)
Power systems engineering
- Load flow, short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies
- Conductor thermal/ampacity analysis (underground, in-tray, above ground)
- Motor starting and transient analysis
- Medium voltage distribution
- MCC & VFD power distribution
Renewable energy
- Utility-scale and distribution connected solar
- Microgrid and behind-the-meter generation
- Battery energy storage systems
- Owner’s engineering
- PVSyst performance modeling
SCADA engineering
• SCADA design and programming
• Interconnection and network diagrams
• Human machine interface development and implementation
• Testing and commissioning
Overhead systems
• Pole line planning and elevations
• Pole framing and equipment selection
• Non-linear pole loading analysis
• Wood, steel, and composite poles
• Sag, tension, and guying analysis
Civil and structural engineering
• Substation steel structure design
• Foundation (pile and concrete) design
• Site grading and drainage plans
• Vibration analysis
• Oil containment systems
Drafting and document control
• AutoCAD
• Microstation
• 2D/3D modeling
Facility training
assessments
• Power system training
• Power system condition assessments
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Read how Spark performed an extensive
engineering study for one of Canada’s largest universities or check out more about our engineering services.
In Alberta, Spark Power provides engineering services through its subsidiary Orbis Engineering Field Services Ltd., APEGA CoA no. P7773.